1 00:00:04,15 --> 00:00:09,05 I find him earthy and I'm here with two of the Dover Sherman boosters I want you 2 00:00:09,06 --> 00:00:12,52 guys introduce yourselves that sounds great dad thanks for having us this is Phil 3 00:00:12,53 --> 00:00:17,09 Scatcherd I'm president sure boosters organization and I'm out here I'm one of the 4 00:00:17,10 --> 00:00:21,22 members of the Dover sugar boosters organization OK so why don't we talk 5 00:00:21,23 --> 00:00:27,02 a little bit about what the boosters are and what you guys do. So the booster's is 6 00:00:27,03 --> 00:00:31,25 an organization that was started many years ago here in the community of Dover 7 00:00:31,29 --> 00:00:33,08 Sherburne by 8 00:00:33,12 --> 00:00:39,07 a group of engaged parents that one of the support the student body in their 9 00:00:39,08 --> 00:00:43,32 athletic accomplishments and it's an organization that's been made up of 10 00:00:44,31 --> 00:00:49,30 a whole bunch of community leaders if you will that have come together to try to 11 00:00:49,31 --> 00:00:53,62 enhance the athletic experience of the Dover Sherman community one of the unique 12 00:00:53,63 --> 00:00:57,56 assets of our community is that eighty percent of our students play 13 00:00:57,57 --> 00:01:02,22 a sport which when you compare that to many other communities around the 14 00:01:02,23 --> 00:01:03,28 Commonwealth that's 15 00:01:03,29 --> 00:01:07,81 a very unusual statistic from what I've been told in fact talking to Stephen Bliss 16 00:01:07,85 --> 00:01:12,79 who is come in recently to kind of manage the whole district you know the the 17 00:01:12,80 --> 00:01:16,37 community he came from was about forty five fifty percent of the students that 18 00:01:16,38 --> 00:01:21,86 participated so we've got huge numbers of kids that participate in our sports we're 19 00:01:21,87 --> 00:01:25,37 here as a broader community to help round out their experience in 20 00:01:25,38 --> 00:01:30,55 a positive way and were some of the sports that students participated you couldn't 21 00:01:30,56 --> 00:01:33,97 you know imagine most of the classics if you would and I don't know if you grew up 22 00:01:34,27 --> 00:01:38,27 in that over here with community I think you might have Yeah but you know certainly 23 00:01:38,71 --> 00:01:45,65 in the fall it's football you know soccer field hockey you know the track team 24 00:01:45,99 --> 00:01:51,58 is active you know off golf thank you Yup both of the boys in the girls side you 25 00:01:51,59 --> 00:01:56,94 know in the winter it's basketball alpine skiing for the first time ever this year 26 00:01:56,95 --> 00:02:01,46 we're going to have an indoor track season that will be something new here at Dover 27 00:02:01,47 --> 00:02:01,88 Sherman 28 00:02:01,89 --> 00:02:06,82 a community got behind sponsoring that and then certainly in the spring all across 29 00:02:06,83 --> 00:02:11,17 for boys and girls baseball you know is a big sport outdoor tracks 30 00:02:11,18 --> 00:02:16,55 a big sport so it's pretty varied in terms of its appeal to the to the student 31 00:02:16,56 --> 00:02:20,72 population and what are some leaders the services that you provide for these 32 00:02:21,21 --> 00:02:26,48 athletes that's a great question so you know every year we. Take ownership of 33 00:02:26,49 --> 00:02:31,93 a lot of different areas you know to benefit the community including what we're 34 00:02:31,94 --> 00:02:32,39 here to talk 35 00:02:32,40 --> 00:02:36,50 a little bit about tonight is one of our largest fundraisers is our annual travel 36 00:02:36,51 --> 00:02:40,87 on this is the night that will travel on all of the proceeds that come from these 37 00:02:40,88 --> 00:02:44,58 events our poor back into the community essentially we do that through 38 00:02:44,59 --> 00:02:48,11 a number of different ways there are scholarships that we provide to our students 39 00:02:48,34 --> 00:02:55,32 on an annual basis you know the kids to participate in sports programs 40 00:02:55,33 --> 00:02:58,54 as captains or recognize you know for their achievements through 41 00:02:58,55 --> 00:03:02,16 a series of scholarships we end up underwriting 42 00:03:02,17 --> 00:03:07,03 a significant amount of equipment. You know capital equipment for the different 43 00:03:07,04 --> 00:03:13,72 teams that include shot clocks you know for the gymnasium you know sound systems 44 00:03:13,73 --> 00:03:19,81 for the stadium field batting cages you know for the baseball teams softball teams 45 00:03:20,00 --> 00:03:24,86 so it's pretty varied in its appeal in terms of how we put that money back into the 46 00:03:24,87 --> 00:03:29,54 community to benefit the kids and then let's talk someone about how you raise this 47 00:03:29,55 --> 00:03:35,27 money you know yeah yeah I need money Danny like the other posters were always 48 00:03:35,28 --> 00:03:40,32 looking for for willing participants so fund raising fund raising fund raising it's 49 00:03:40,33 --> 00:03:46,14 kind of one of our. Key initiatives if you will you know part of what we do every 50 00:03:46,15 --> 00:03:52,67 year in terms of fund raising is based on community participation and not community 51 00:03:52,68 --> 00:03:57,26 participation what I mean by that is this weekend we're going to have our run daddy 52 00:03:57,27 --> 00:04:01,97 will travel on which has become our largest fundraiser of the year the beautiful 53 00:04:01,98 --> 00:04:04,66 thing about that event is that it brings the community together in 54 00:04:04,67 --> 00:04:09,92 a meaningful way through volunteer opportunities that we have there are numerous 55 00:04:09,93 --> 00:04:10,22 but 56 00:04:10,47 --> 00:04:14,42 a lot of the participants are people coming from outside the community so the money 57 00:04:14,43 --> 00:04:18,40 that's coming into the community to benefit our kids is coming from sources outside 58 00:04:18,45 --> 00:04:23,48 you know the broader community to help you know the kids and through our initiative 59 00:04:23,49 --> 00:04:27,71 endeavors try to you know stimulate. Equipment purchases and things like that so 60 00:04:27,86 --> 00:04:33,64 triathlon is big Certainly we manage the snack shack and you know all the proceeds 61 00:04:33,65 --> 00:04:37,84 go back through the boosters program gate receipts go back through the boosters 62 00:04:37,85 --> 00:04:42,08 program and that's people attending our various events whether it's football of 63 00:04:42,09 --> 00:04:45,83 that basketball hockey of that you know is 64 00:04:45,84 --> 00:04:49,88 a big part of the fundraising that we do so it's pretty varied in terms of and 65 00:04:49,89 --> 00:04:54,83 let's talk some more about this traffic on what's it consist of than you know 66 00:04:55,03 --> 00:04:59,84 what's what's going to happen with it well considering we have one of the original 67 00:04:59,85 --> 00:05:06,21 founders of the drive mom with us I'll have her let Al take that question Sure 68 00:05:07,05 --> 00:05:10,85 so the triathlon. Is a is known as 69 00:05:10,86 --> 00:05:14,95 a sprint level triathlon which typically has 70 00:05:15,56 --> 00:05:20,73 a typical sprint triathlon will have three components which is a swim a bike in 71 00:05:20,74 --> 00:05:21,52 a row and in 72 00:05:21,53 --> 00:05:26,00 a run the test distances are shorter than some of the longer ones like the 73 00:05:26,01 --> 00:05:26,83 classical Y. 74 00:05:26,84 --> 00:05:30,59 And Iron Man that people may have seen on the television exciter and so Sprint 75 00:05:30,60 --> 00:05:36,60 level triathlons are really geared towards people that are like us trying to keep 76 00:05:36,61 --> 00:05:39,79 ourselves in shape work out get kids involved except for 77 00:05:39,80 --> 00:05:42,66 a and it's typical swim distance might be 78 00:05:42,67 --> 00:05:48,24 a quarter mile swim which is essentially what ours is up to perhaps a third of 79 00:05:48,25 --> 00:05:49,73 a mile or even up to a half 80 00:05:49,74 --> 00:05:56,28 a mile the bike portion will be anywhere from ten to fifteen plus miles Ours is 81 00:05:56,29 --> 00:06:01,70 about fourteen point eight miles and then runs through Sherburne and over NY 82 00:06:01,71 --> 00:06:04,64 streets which are very familiar to many people who bike 83 00:06:04,68 --> 00:06:09,30 a lot around here as some of the typical bike routes that some of the buy clubs use 84 00:06:09,76 --> 00:06:13,24 and then the run is generally in the five K. 85 00:06:13,28 --> 00:06:18,55 Or or shorter so around you know three point one three point four miles. 86 00:06:20,50 --> 00:06:25,97 Sometimes a little longer than that so they're strung together as either one 87 00:06:25,98 --> 00:06:26,51 a vent that 88 00:06:26,52 --> 00:06:31,62 a single individual can do in and go from one to the other or they can be done as 89 00:06:31,63 --> 00:06:37,20 a relay where people one person does one leg of it another person goes another and 90 00:06:37,21 --> 00:06:44,06 then the third person does the last forty so it's it is staged in 91 00:06:44,07 --> 00:06:45,25 two locations which is 92 00:06:45,26 --> 00:06:51,53 a little unusual for triathlons as the swimmers in farm pond Sherburne the bike 93 00:06:51,54 --> 00:06:55,26 through Sherburne in Dover and then the run is through some of the streets here and 94 00:06:55,27 --> 00:07:01,84 over and over in the Donnelly estates which is one of the well known training runs 95 00:07:01,85 --> 00:07:06,80 for the for the cross country in the Tractatus So we did it as sensually as 96 00:07:06,81 --> 00:07:11,22 a way to sort of incorporate both sounds and get people involved in something that 97 00:07:11,23 --> 00:07:11,58 was 98 00:07:12,25 --> 00:07:18,67 a health oriented and essentially. Spirit and camaraderie type of 99 00:07:19,19 --> 00:07:25,04 in and you know volunteer ism type of oriented event. That would bring both of the 100 00:07:25,05 --> 00:07:29,55 towns together we get people from both Sherman and over together to help out which 101 00:07:29,56 --> 00:07:35,35 is something that Collette as Bill has already mentioned collectively age in the 102 00:07:35,89 --> 00:07:42,02 whole sports oriented culture here at the high school and then what sort of caused 103 00:07:42,03 --> 00:07:48,73 this to be created. So this was created as just 104 00:07:48,74 --> 00:07:50,65 a grassroots idea that 105 00:07:51,52 --> 00:07:56,38 a former wrote Dover resident Peter Kell see and I came up with on 106 00:07:56,39 --> 00:07:59,29 a training run while we were training for 107 00:07:59,30 --> 00:08:03,75 a triathlon that we were participating in in the middle of two thousand the first 108 00:08:03,76 --> 00:08:05,82 decade and we thought there would be 109 00:08:05,83 --> 00:08:11,85 a great way to sort of get people to come to the town here and but also wouldn't be 110 00:08:11,86 --> 00:08:15,99 a reasonable fundraiser we had no idea that it would it would attain the success 111 00:08:16,00 --> 00:08:22,04 that it has. And essentially we put it to go. Either as something to benefit the 112 00:08:22,05 --> 00:08:26,05 sports organizations because frankly there's 113 00:08:26,06 --> 00:08:32,97 a very well organized. Fund raising capacity for the academics in the school and 114 00:08:33,61 --> 00:08:39,32 so we decided that we would develop this for something that was in need of perhaps 115 00:08:39,86 --> 00:08:46,32 a fresh look at the front raising the way we that. Many fundraisers and gallows and 116 00:08:46,33 --> 00:08:49,59 things that were held by the boosters which are were great we figured this was 117 00:08:49,72 --> 00:08:52,23 something more in keeping with the spirit of the boosters which is 118 00:08:52,24 --> 00:08:58,55 a little bit more athletically inclined so we we had both permit for S'sopoaga to 119 00:08:58,56 --> 00:09:03,59 numerous triathlons and then mass challenge etc So we decided to take all the best 120 00:09:03,60 --> 00:09:08,61 components of all of those races that we had been involved in and put it together 121 00:09:08,62 --> 00:09:14,06 to produce something that might work and so we really hadn't really no idea if it 122 00:09:14,07 --> 00:09:19,95 would but we worked very hard the first year in subsequent years as well tried to 123 00:09:20,46 --> 00:09:25,76 dot all the i's and cross the t's and get organized and it sold out the first year 124 00:09:25,76 --> 00:09:27,59 . About 125 00:09:27,60 --> 00:09:32,07 a month or two ahead of time and it has sold out every year since then so it really 126 00:09:32,58 --> 00:09:33,68 it really has taken on 127 00:09:33,69 --> 00:09:39,30 a life of its own in the triathlon world and so we're as we are even today turning 128 00:09:39,31 --> 00:09:43,20 people away that want to be in the race so it's it's 129 00:09:43,21 --> 00:09:49,22 a good deal so how many people participate. So we typically have about three 130 00:09:49,23 --> 00:09:55,28 hundred people part of that is based on safety which is the main our main goal is 131 00:09:55,29 --> 00:09:55,88 to maintain 132 00:09:55,89 --> 00:10:00,62 a safe race so we keep the numbers down so that we can control and carefully 133 00:10:00,66 --> 00:10:07,00 orchestrate what happens during the swim part in fun part which of course is the 134 00:10:07,05 --> 00:10:11,82 where the most risk is and really isn't We've never had an issue but that's partly 135 00:10:11,94 --> 00:10:17,68 because we. Have. We have gotten 136 00:10:17,69 --> 00:10:21,50 a number of lifeguards this year I think we have twelve lifeguards for the three 137 00:10:21,51 --> 00:10:26,11 hundred people and they're scattered throughout the course we have. This flotation 138 00:10:26,12 --> 00:10:30,66 devices and we have boats and everything to help the people feel like they're safe 139 00:10:30,66 --> 00:10:37,57 . And then and then from there goes on to the bike course in and we have 140 00:10:37,58 --> 00:10:42,43 volunteers all around to help people make sure that they stay on course and then 141 00:10:42,44 --> 00:10:47,25 the same thing on and on the run scenario and then why are some of the logistical 142 00:10:47,26 --> 00:10:52,02 challenges setting up this discourse so there are some so we have 143 00:10:52,03 --> 00:10:57,62 a because of parking issues at farm pond which are it's relatively small venue we 144 00:10:57,63 --> 00:11:02,05 take over the entire parking lot with our bike racks for people to track their 145 00:11:02,06 --> 00:11:07,62 bikes so that we don't have the ability to have people start and finish the race in 146 00:11:07,63 --> 00:11:13,43 the same place so we have to have two different transition areas where by we have 147 00:11:13,85 --> 00:11:18,75 the so-called swim bike transition area at farm pond and then we have 148 00:11:18,76 --> 00:11:24,17 a second transition area here at the high school which is the bike run transition 149 00:11:24,52 --> 00:11:29,61 and so we have to make sure that we get people's all the people there to start the 150 00:11:29,62 --> 00:11:32,94 race and then we have to make sure we get all the equipment back here in an 151 00:11:32,95 --> 00:11:38,81 organized fashion to finish the race when when athletes are done and they want to 152 00:11:39,29 --> 00:11:43,96 come to find their equipment they have to be able to find it so we basically model 153 00:11:43,97 --> 00:11:47,03 that after the sand mass challenge that has 154 00:11:47,04 --> 00:11:51,91 a extraordinarily militaristic efficiency to their ability to get everything in 155 00:11:51,92 --> 00:11:55,78 with back in one place and organized and and you know I'm not sure will ever get to 156 00:11:55,79 --> 00:12:00,01 quite that level of organization but we that's what we described to you and it's 157 00:12:00,02 --> 00:12:02,90 worked out so OK OK so far when you've had 158 00:12:02,91 --> 00:12:07,75 a positive interaction with the towns of Dover insurer Warren who you know are 159 00:12:07,76 --> 00:12:13,00 along the course are you now just interacting with the town government and all that 160 00:12:13,01 --> 00:12:16,43 is it's generally been profit. It's been 161 00:12:16,44 --> 00:12:21,19 a very very positive because and rightly so they were very skeptical at first 162 00:12:21,20 --> 00:12:28,09 because of the number of people in the risk involved in so Dover ensure and 163 00:12:28,10 --> 00:12:34,04 have been very careful to have us. Sort of. 164 00:12:38,67 --> 00:12:40,85 What would you say we have to we have to meet 165 00:12:40,86 --> 00:12:44,20 a series of state or city energy Exactly that's what it is 166 00:12:44,21 --> 00:12:48,31 a series of standards that they have stablished So we have to have signed off from 167 00:12:48,32 --> 00:12:53,50 the. Fire department from the police department from the highway department from 168 00:12:53,51 --> 00:12:58,67 the farm pond communities there in the police both and over ensure we have police 169 00:12:58,68 --> 00:13:03,81 details in both towns that keep traffic controlled and keep the athletes as safe as 170 00:13:03,82 --> 00:13:08,79 possible and so that bit that has engendered 171 00:13:08,80 --> 00:13:11,06 a lot of trust and therefore we've had 172 00:13:11,07 --> 00:13:15,67 a very good relationship not to mention the fact that we keep if the place is 173 00:13:15,68 --> 00:13:20,49 cleaner than they were me first got there so if there's when we sweep all both 174 00:13:20,50 --> 00:13:25,27 locations here at the high school and farm pond when we're done we pick up all the 175 00:13:25,28 --> 00:13:29,99 trash it's cleaner than it was. Before we got there so if you're 176 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:32,90 a good neighbor then people are going to invite you back and so far we've been 177 00:13:33,73 --> 00:13:38,25 pretty successful for the last nine years and now it's point one of the things that 178 00:13:38,26 --> 00:13:43,26 they asked us to do is on August twenty sixth we had to go to the Sherman select 179 00:13:43,27 --> 00:13:49,76 men's meeting. And the selection were very supportive again of the triathlon but 180 00:13:49,77 --> 00:13:54,35 they wanted to know as Al described that there is this checklist that we had to go 181 00:13:54,36 --> 00:13:58,40 down and really we had to check off and get signatures from all of the different 182 00:13:58,41 --> 00:14:04,55 organizations across the Sherborne governing body if you will to make sure that 183 00:14:04,56 --> 00:14:08,31 they signed off that everything was safe and they approved of us hosting the 184 00:14:08,32 --> 00:14:14,94 triathlon again including one of our own Emily Hans is leading the charge for the 185 00:14:14,95 --> 00:14:20,61 lifeguards this year so every year there's usually someone from either the D.S. 186 00:14:20,62 --> 00:14:22,50 Wimp team or the D.S. 187 00:14:22,51 --> 00:14:26,61 Nappers organization that steps up and will lead the charge as I mentioned around 188 00:14:26,75 --> 00:14:31,33 you know recruiting the lifeguard component that will be available to manage the 189 00:14:31,34 --> 00:14:34,51 event you know during the. Actual race day and as 190 00:14:34,52 --> 00:14:38,07 a student in the community she took it upon herself to reach out recruit 191 00:14:38,08 --> 00:14:42,60 a bunch of her friends and she'll be taking charge of that component of it but the 192 00:14:42,74 --> 00:14:48,21 selectmen are really critical about us having all of those individuals lined up in 193 00:14:48,22 --> 00:14:52,88 advance before they will approve of the event every year and then and sort of on 194 00:14:53,70 --> 00:14:58,78 a related note like how much interaction do you have with students for this event 195 00:14:58,79 --> 00:15:04,66 and for all booster events for that matter well Dan for this event we couldn't do 196 00:15:04,67 --> 00:15:08,74 it without the students we couldn't do without the students primarily because they 197 00:15:08,75 --> 00:15:09,36 represent 198 00:15:09,37 --> 00:15:14,76 a significant component of our volunteers the reason why is Al articulated we can 199 00:15:14,77 --> 00:15:19,49 host this event every year as it's grown in size and scale is that the students 200 00:15:19,50 --> 00:15:25,01 from all of the teams that are represented in the fall sports are volunteering for 201 00:15:25,02 --> 00:15:28,98 different areas of the you know session becoming 202 00:15:28,99 --> 00:15:34,09 a two day event set up in staging on Saturday and actual race day on Sunday so they 203 00:15:34,10 --> 00:15:39,78 come in and volunteer for different you know aspects set up take down clean up 204 00:15:39,79 --> 00:15:43,98 coursework what have you but without the students' participation there's no way we 205 00:15:43,99 --> 00:15:50,63 could pull this event off. Its turf and then they get such great bath 206 00:15:50,64 --> 00:15:56,99 it's from from participating in this to they get community service hours. Which is 207 00:15:57,24 --> 00:15:58,14 which is to them 208 00:15:58,15 --> 00:16:05,15 a great thing to get those signed up. So then. Maybe maybe 209 00:16:05,16 --> 00:16:07,46 next week should we talk someone about 210 00:16:07,59 --> 00:16:12,05 a story or fundraising goals for the year or yeah that would be great Dan because 211 00:16:12,06 --> 00:16:18,95 last year we went through one of the more significant milestone of fund raising 212 00:16:18,96 --> 00:16:19,48 for the D.S. 213 00:16:19,49 --> 00:16:26,04 Boosters you know in terms of their history and that was to recognise the 214 00:16:26,74 --> 00:16:31,78 the plan that we put together with the Regional School Committee that was done by 215 00:16:31,79 --> 00:16:37,93 an outside engineering. Firm to essentially upgrade our entire campus if you will 216 00:16:38,65 --> 00:16:39,26 over 217 00:16:39,30 --> 00:16:46,20 a phased approach and last year phase one was essentially the initiative that we 218 00:16:46,21 --> 00:16:52,51 put forth which was to remove the natural grass on our stadium field and put down 219 00:16:52,52 --> 00:16:58,21 a synthetic turf surface we wanted to do that for a number of reasons one from 220 00:16:58,22 --> 00:17:03,62 a safety perspective there is research that shows that that service is safer than 221 00:17:03,66 --> 00:17:09,06 a grass surface to in some cases the grass surface was unplayable because of 222 00:17:09,07 --> 00:17:13,32 weather issues or teams couldn't get out there early in the spring you know where 223 00:17:13,33 --> 00:17:18,81 teams could play and when it was professionally wet in many cases we couldn't host 224 00:17:18,82 --> 00:17:21,67 playoff games because of the field was unplayable you know it was 225 00:17:21,68 --> 00:17:22,83 a barrier to hosting 226 00:17:22,84 --> 00:17:26,98 a home playoff game so one of the initiatives was to upgrade that surface and 227 00:17:27,19 --> 00:17:27,75 through 228 00:17:27,79 --> 00:17:33,36 a appeal to the community once that the plan was approved by the Regional School 229 00:17:33,37 --> 00:17:39,11 Committee the town of Dover the appeal to the community was private fund raising 230 00:17:39,69 --> 00:17:45,05 through the boosters organization generating significant proceeds to upgrade that 231 00:17:45,06 --> 00:17:48,64 service we were successful in through 232 00:17:48,65 --> 00:17:54,60 a series of five donations raising about one point one million dollars last year 233 00:17:54,61 --> 00:17:59,06 that allowed us to begin construction last spring and end up with the first game 234 00:17:59,07 --> 00:18:05,02 being played on that in I think early September of last season so that was 235 00:18:05,03 --> 00:18:07,52 a significant milestone for us in terms of you know 236 00:18:07,53 --> 00:18:10,74 a fund raising being being able to accomplish 237 00:18:10,75 --> 00:18:14,92 a significant project like that within a timeframe on 238 00:18:14,93 --> 00:18:20,25 a budget goal that we had but we're not done because with that regional campus 239 00:18:20,26 --> 00:18:25,92 upgrade there are two additional phases that we'd like to to accomplish I've got 240 00:18:25,93 --> 00:18:31,95 a couple of boards here to kind of sure you know with the community especially the 241 00:18:31,96 --> 00:18:38,91 first is. The orientation here is the middle school is located here the main drive 242 00:18:38,95 --> 00:18:45,68 into the parking lot is off here to the left but phase two of this regional upgrade 243 00:18:45,92 --> 00:18:48,03 this plan is to put 244 00:18:48,29 --> 00:18:54,21 a turf surface on what would currently be the football practice field adjacent to 245 00:18:54,22 --> 00:18:59,38 the middle school area on the surface it will basically be the same size as the 246 00:18:59,39 --> 00:19:03,77 stadium field surface it will be lined the same way one of the reasons why I call 247 00:19:03,78 --> 00:19:10,37 that out is that we can support. I think six sports on the surface including boys 248 00:19:10,38 --> 00:19:16,59 and girls lacrosse field hockey football and as you can see here on this example 249 00:19:16,60 --> 00:19:18,24 we're also going to have a J.V. 250 00:19:18,25 --> 00:19:24,16 Softball surface on this area as well this will allow us to support you know 251 00:19:24,17 --> 00:19:28,83 practices multiple practices both of all games if you will onto 252 00:19:28,87 --> 00:19:30,80 a synthetic surfaces which we think will be 253 00:19:30,81 --> 00:19:37,60 a significant benefit to our athletes but this is also part of the Phase two of our 254 00:19:37,80 --> 00:19:43,37 regional plan and then lastly I've got the the other diagram that I wanted to share 255 00:19:43,38 --> 00:19:50,36 which is the upgrade of the. Tennis facility that we have so the goal would be 256 00:19:50,40 --> 00:19:56,47 to remove the four tennis courts that we have adjacent to the parking lot over by 257 00:19:56,48 --> 00:19:59,87 the stadium field that will be replaced by a Glock 258 00:19:59,92 --> 00:20:05,41 a grass surface that will allow for us to create two eleven v eleven services for 259 00:20:05,42 --> 00:20:10,70 additional field space for our athletes and in response to removing those courts 260 00:20:10,71 --> 00:20:15,37 where the current varsity of field varsity because we have our city softball field 261 00:20:15,38 --> 00:20:20,78 is in the middle schools here the varsity parking lot is back to our right but this 262 00:20:20,79 --> 00:20:26,55 will now be a new tennis complex for athletes It will feature six courts and 263 00:20:26,59 --> 00:20:32,87 a multi purpose outdoor athletic field the basketball surface here with the seating 264 00:20:32,88 --> 00:20:38,85 air. A storage area for supplies but one of the unique things about having six 265 00:20:38,86 --> 00:20:42,68 courts is that for most matches five courts are required we only have four 266 00:20:42,69 --> 00:20:44,07 currently so this will be 267 00:20:44,08 --> 00:20:49,01 a much better footprint for our athletes you know to work on this and play on the 268 00:20:49,02 --> 00:20:55,83 surface so this is all part of the additional second phase of the regional upgrade 269 00:20:55,89 --> 00:21:01,58 the plan of attack we need about two point five million dollars to complete both 270 00:21:01,59 --> 00:21:06,68 the tennis facility the synthetic surface on the practice field as well as some 271 00:21:06,69 --> 00:21:11,09 other minor upgrades with backstops and walkways that we've got planned as well so 272 00:21:11,10 --> 00:21:15,67 we're through phase one we have essentially phase two and Phase three in front of 273 00:21:15,68 --> 00:21:16,90 us it's 274 00:21:16,91 --> 00:21:22,14 a significant. You know effort to fundraise because this is all private donations 275 00:21:22,59 --> 00:21:27,14 through the community to really to generate you know that type of capital but we 276 00:21:27,18 --> 00:21:28,24 have been approached by 277 00:21:28,25 --> 00:21:31,96 a number of citizens who have interest you know in the project they have an 278 00:21:31,97 --> 00:21:37,38 interest in making an impact in the community we have some history of being 279 00:21:37,39 --> 00:21:41,92 successful you know with this as relates to phase one in our ability Jerry one one 280 00:21:41,96 --> 00:21:46,52 in in additional capital to do that so we're optimistic that we can do this the 281 00:21:46,56 --> 00:21:47,54 term is 282 00:21:47,55 --> 00:21:52,17 a little longer than we were hoping for because of the size and scope of the project 283 00:21:52,18 --> 00:21:56,39 but you know with right now we're we're all about kind of 284 00:21:56,40 --> 00:22:00,27 a fund raising initiative to try to accomplish these two goals and what kind of 285 00:22:00,28 --> 00:22:03,36 timeline are you looking at to accomplish this you know it's 286 00:22:03,37 --> 00:22:06,97 a great question then and to be candid we have not put 287 00:22:07,01 --> 00:22:10,98 a timeline on it just because of the size and scope of the project certainly the 288 00:22:10,99 --> 00:22:14,57 path of least resistance is one donor coming to the table saying I'd like to 289 00:22:14,58 --> 00:22:18,60 underwrite the entire project and if that happens we could break ground as soon as 290 00:22:18,61 --> 00:22:23,51 next summer. The construction part of any of these projects would have to happen 291 00:22:23,52 --> 00:22:28,19 over the summer because it's least disruptive to the student population but you 292 00:22:28,20 --> 00:22:32,45 know again the community at large is going to respond to the call to action with 293 00:22:32,46 --> 00:22:35,55 this. They're going to be specific donors they're going to respond in 294 00:22:35,56 --> 00:22:41,68 a larger way and depending on the outcome of the fundraising outreach we have you 295 00:22:41,69 --> 00:22:44,38 know we could begin as soon as next summer or he'll be in 296 00:22:44,39 --> 00:22:49,05 a soon as you know twenty fifteen there's really no timeline to it and with these 297 00:22:49,06 --> 00:22:55,99 facilities be used exclusively by Dover Sherman students or when they also be 298 00:22:56,00 --> 00:23:02,17 open potentially to. Other private interests Yeah that's another good question so 299 00:23:02,18 --> 00:23:06,42 the the appeal to these would certainly be to our Dover seven high school students 300 00:23:06,43 --> 00:23:10,30 the middle school students and they would be using these you know certainly for all 301 00:23:10,31 --> 00:23:15,47 of their matches for games for practices and things like that but these also have 302 00:23:15,48 --> 00:23:20,08 a broader appeal to the community use force is certainly interested and currently 303 00:23:20,09 --> 00:23:24,84 uses the stadium surface that we did so they would be able to take advantage of 304 00:23:24,88 --> 00:23:30,15 this additional surface for use sports whether it's soccer lacrosse you know any of 305 00:23:30,16 --> 00:23:33,93 those football any of those organizations that needs additional field and playing 306 00:23:33,94 --> 00:23:38,52 service would be able to use this as well as you know in the community we have 307 00:23:38,63 --> 00:23:43,39 adult soccer leagues that play on these surfaces you know and you know the softball 308 00:23:43,40 --> 00:23:47,85 could use this surface for instance you know over here on the on the practice field 309 00:23:47,86 --> 00:23:51,84 as part of the configuration there tennis appeals to it you know I'm not the mass 310 00:23:52,20 --> 00:23:55,92 in town you know you come over here on any night and the courts are active with you 311 00:23:55,93 --> 00:23:59,60 know community people coming in and playing so you know it would be fair game for 312 00:23:59,61 --> 00:24:05,85 everyone including the population here at the high school that's great. So 313 00:24:06,62 --> 00:24:10,68 I don't know if I if there's anything else additionally you want to say I mean I 314 00:24:10,69 --> 00:24:14,24 could ask you questions about how you guys got involved in boosters if you'd be 315 00:24:14,25 --> 00:24:18,84 interested in talking about that bomb. Yeah I mean I was involved personally 316 00:24:18,85 --> 00:24:23,63 because I had skin in the game with my my kids you know they were in athletics and 317 00:24:23,64 --> 00:24:26,22 into sports and I thought they you know sitting on 318 00:24:26,23 --> 00:24:31,73 a sideline and supporting them by driving to home or away matches was one thing but 319 00:24:31,77 --> 00:24:32,66 you know there's a kind of 320 00:24:32,67 --> 00:24:37,59 a greater call to action for me and I thought you know what better way to serve the 321 00:24:37,74 --> 00:24:41,95 community to get involved boosters I can tell you that it's 322 00:24:41,96 --> 00:24:44,15 a wonderful organization we have 323 00:24:44,16 --> 00:24:49,41 a lot of fun there's the constant need for additional resources to get involved but 324 00:24:49,42 --> 00:24:53,69 in the end of the day between what we do with the fund raising what we do with the 325 00:24:53,70 --> 00:24:57,39 funding committee to give back to the community what we've been able to do with the 326 00:24:57,40 --> 00:25:02,55 Raiders rack and seeing all the kids you know around the community branded in year 327 00:25:03,30 --> 00:25:08,23 looking like very sharp and seen the adults get into it and you know it's been 328 00:25:08,24 --> 00:25:11,58 amazing starting that five years ago from nothing to see where it is today 329 00:25:11,88 --> 00:25:12,49 occupying 330 00:25:12,50 --> 00:25:16,37 a store from here Lou like was common you know it's really satisfying to be part of 331 00:25:16,38 --> 00:25:22,14 an experience like that and I enjoy it now. You want to say how you got involved. 332 00:25:23,38 --> 00:25:28,50 So I got involved mainly. To the fact that I've had four kids that have gone 333 00:25:28,51 --> 00:25:31,23 through over Sherman high school the last of whom is now 334 00:25:31,24 --> 00:25:38,10 a freshman my daughter Emma. And I can I came in. Primarily through the 335 00:25:38,11 --> 00:25:44,08 triathlon but also have been known to flip burgers over at the concession stand 336 00:25:44,09 --> 00:25:50,82 further some burn burn. And I would say that the thing that has. 337 00:25:52,20 --> 00:25:56,57 Sort of been the highlight for me really has to come in contact with 338 00:25:56,58 --> 00:26:01,26 a lot of other parents of in similar interest in the in the community and I think 339 00:26:02,09 --> 00:26:07,03 would bill is talked about the behind the scenes organization commitment to both up 340 00:26:07,04 --> 00:26:13,62 and time especially but also financially to. Eating our kids and 341 00:26:14,12 --> 00:26:17,42 those that help teach our kids. Is really sort of 342 00:26:17,43 --> 00:26:22,18 a humbling experience it's been really great to see that and I have wanted to be 343 00:26:22,19 --> 00:26:28,37 part of that so I give the time that I can to help out to get the the third wheel 344 00:26:28,41 --> 00:26:33,14 in this in this group who's not able to join us tonight because he's in Salt Lake 345 00:26:33,15 --> 00:26:34,45 City on a business trip is 346 00:26:35,02 --> 00:26:40,56 a guy who's been kind of the backstop for the boosters for probably nine or ten 347 00:26:40,57 --> 00:26:46,83 years now at least minimum I think back but Frank Perlmutter recruited me into the 348 00:26:46,84 --> 00:26:47,26 boosters 349 00:26:47,27 --> 00:26:53,04 a couple years ago and you know singlehandedly drove the bushes organization you 350 00:26:53,05 --> 00:26:53,72 know through 351 00:26:54,14 --> 00:27:00,15 a number of years he had three children that were active in the boosters but you 352 00:27:00,16 --> 00:27:05,56 know through Frank's efforts you know kind of cajoling corralling recruiting he 353 00:27:05,57 --> 00:27:10,23 kept the boosters going and he's still we call him chairman emeritus of the 354 00:27:10,24 --> 00:27:13,67 boosters but he's still actively involved and tell us what to do on 355 00:27:13,68 --> 00:27:19,22 a regular basis so that wise to ask how can people who are not currently involved 356 00:27:19,23 --> 00:27:25,40 get more involved with the boosters Yeah dad the best way to do it is to first of 357 00:27:25,41 --> 00:27:28,18 all if anybody is interested W W W dot D.S. 358 00:27:28,19 --> 00:27:31,91 Boosters dot com There's information there about the travel and there's information 359 00:27:31,92 --> 00:27:37,46 there about the boosters. There is contact information if they would choose to get 360 00:27:37,47 --> 00:27:42,39 involved they can send me an e-mail scatch at G. 361 00:27:42,40 --> 00:27:46,21 Mail dot com is the best way to get in touch with me that information is on the 362 00:27:46,22 --> 00:27:52,07 website we are going through our membership drive right now if people in the 363 00:27:52,08 --> 00:27:55,91 community are interested we are always looking for new members with the membership 364 00:27:55,92 --> 00:28:00,79 you get boosters passes which allow you free access to things like football games 365 00:28:01,01 --> 00:28:05,18 basketball games hockey games so we're in the process of that membership drive 366 00:28:05,19 --> 00:28:09,31 right now and you know encourage people to get involved with out if they can and 367 00:28:09,32 --> 00:28:12,57 also from another fund raising perspective with a triathlon we have 368 00:28:12,58 --> 00:28:17,94 a huge community of friends and family we call them that. Have participated and 369 00:28:18,13 --> 00:28:21,92 helped underwrite the cost of the triathlon by making gifts to the traffic on the 370 00:28:21,93 --> 00:28:27,16 recognized to individual signage around the route but individuals can give directly 371 00:28:27,17 --> 00:28:28,55 online this year we've added 372 00:28:28,56 --> 00:28:32,03 a credit card option online so they can join to the boosters and become 373 00:28:32,04 --> 00:28:35,56 a member online they can contribute to the to the travel and through the friends 374 00:28:35,57 --> 00:28:39,77 and frat friends and family network online directly from the website so if they 375 00:28:39,78 --> 00:28:44,20 want to get involved that's the best place to go that's that's terrific Maybe I 376 00:28:44,21 --> 00:28:44,63 should ask 377 00:28:44,64 --> 00:28:50,02 a little bit more about talking about the Raiders rock and what's available at that 378 00:28:50,50 --> 00:28:56,45 what size you did you will be the M U A largely small medium pretty tiny Well if 379 00:28:56,46 --> 00:29:02,89 you are small or medium we've got ample sizes of Under Armor gear Nike 380 00:29:02,90 --> 00:29:05,57 gear you name it it's over there 381 00:29:05,58 --> 00:29:12,44 a fleece water bottles shoes. Flip flops it's incredible 382 00:29:12,99 --> 00:29:17,40 the exciting thing is that the inventory just arrived for this year there's been 383 00:29:17,41 --> 00:29:21,06 a number of individuals that have led that that cause Gen Collins joined 384 00:29:21,07 --> 00:29:27,69 a broch Paddy Gallagher. Christe Kristen market has taken over an active role 385 00:29:27,70 --> 00:29:28,84 there but there's 386 00:29:28,85 --> 00:29:31,12 a number of people from the community to volunteer their time for 387 00:29:31,13 --> 00:29:34,50 a couple hours because it's open several days each week where people from the 388 00:29:34,51 --> 00:29:38,77 community can go in we've got kids that pop in that are having lunch and link was 389 00:29:38,78 --> 00:29:42,97 Camas and they're going in and you know buying things so it's been unbelievably 390 00:29:42,98 --> 00:29:49,34 successful for us to open that up it's great so if you have any other additional 391 00:29:49,35 --> 00:29:54,17 thoughts you want to add that's great but you know otherwise I don't think I have 392 00:29:54,18 --> 00:29:58,30 a name for their questions thanks so much for coming and thank you for having us 393 00:29:58,31 --> 00:30:02,11 thanks for having us this is great thank you very much. All right thank you very 394 00:30:02,12 --> 00:30:02,91 much thank you.